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Got home from work on Friday to find a large box from Moe's Performance had arrived, my birthday present from my wife: an S&B CAI. 
Goodies galore
Blazing hot here today but I got 'er done in about 90 minutes.
Finished install
A couple of things to be aware of: The first step should be "turn steering to hard right before shutting down the vehicle." Then it should begin with removal of OEM equipment as the next step. The S&B instructions aren't bad, but they gloss over the PITA part of removing the right front wheel liner to access the bolts to remove the OEM filter box base and later install the S&B box. Turning the wheels to the right makes for more clearance and once you've pulled the OEM intake you really don't want to start the truck until the TB is drawing air through a filter again.
As to the wheel liner, the instructions say there are five screws and three plastic pins. Well, on my 2012 sport, there are four plastic pins, two are wide flat heads that are a ****** to remove and two are small heads that are less of a ******. The S&B Kit does come with three replacements for the two smaller head plastic pins, but nothing that looks like the difficult to remove wide head version. Fortunately I was able to re-use both fat heads, so just a minor nuisance. Also, the instructions talk about removing a wiring harness once you loosen the wheel liner but not where it is specifically--when I read the directins (gasp manhood alert) it sounded as if there were a wiring harness passing through the are of the air box. In reality on my truck it is a support fastner on the lower trailing edge of the wheel liner near the firewall. It was just a matter of sliding the harness attachment loose and putting it back afterward.
Now the important part: I went with an enclosed CAI because the K&N I had on my Durango about shook every filling out of my teeth under load. The S&B adds a nice throttle note and a slightly deeper exhaust tone--but no deafening roar in the cab.
The performance is there however. A nice increase in acceleration as measured by my fully calibrated driver's butt and a modest 1 MPG increase over my normal city mileage, even with a lot of WOT starts and passing lane changes to fully assess the improvements.
I'm a very happy camper right now.
I just have to convince my wife an 85mm TB is what she needs to give me for Xmas (father's day would be cool too).
Goodies galore
Blazing hot here today but I got 'er done in about 90 minutes.
Finished install
A couple of things to be aware of: The first step should be "turn steering to hard right before shutting down the vehicle." Then it should begin with removal of OEM equipment as the next step. The S&B instructions aren't bad, but they gloss over the PITA part of removing the right front wheel liner to access the bolts to remove the OEM filter box base and later install the S&B box. Turning the wheels to the right makes for more clearance and once you've pulled the OEM intake you really don't want to start the truck until the TB is drawing air through a filter again.
As to the wheel liner, the instructions say there are five screws and three plastic pins. Well, on my 2012 sport, there are four plastic pins, two are wide flat heads that are a ****** to remove and two are small heads that are less of a ******. The S&B Kit does come with three replacements for the two smaller head plastic pins, but nothing that looks like the difficult to remove wide head version. Fortunately I was able to re-use both fat heads, so just a minor nuisance. Also, the instructions talk about removing a wiring harness once you loosen the wheel liner but not where it is specifically--when I read the directins (gasp manhood alert) it sounded as if there were a wiring harness passing through the are of the air box. In reality on my truck it is a support fastner on the lower trailing edge of the wheel liner near the firewall. It was just a matter of sliding the harness attachment loose and putting it back afterward.
Now the important part: I went with an enclosed CAI because the K&N I had on my Durango about shook every filling out of my teeth under load. The S&B adds a nice throttle note and a slightly deeper exhaust tone--but no deafening roar in the cab.
The performance is there however. A nice increase in acceleration as measured by my fully calibrated driver's butt and a modest 1 MPG increase over my normal city mileage, even with a lot of WOT starts and passing lane changes to fully assess the improvements.
I'm a very happy camper right now.
I just have to convince my wife an 85mm TB is what she needs to give me for Xmas (father's day would be cool too).
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